| New Hope/ Hamilton Farm Cemetery | |||||||||||||
| Clinton Twp | |||||||||||||
| Section 8 | |||||||||||||
| 39 45 46N Latitude; 86 59 05W Longitude | |||||||||||||
| This cemetery is on private property. Obtain permission from property owner before visiting this cemetery. | |||||||||||||
| Directions: | |||||||||||||
| Go about one mile west of Morton on US 36. County Road 775 T's into US 36 in the middle of the "S" curves west of Morton. Across from where Co Rd 775 T's into US 36 there is a lane. Go north down this lane to the fence at the end of the fields. Go across the fence and follow the fence east until it meets a fence going north and south. Follow that north/south fence north about 100 yards. The cemetery is on both sides of this fence. The grave of Sarah Moler, along with another base and a very old stone is on the west side of this fence. On the east side of this fence are five illegible stones south of the maple tree, one old stone just east and south of the maple tree, and two more illegible stones east of that stone, just north of a fence. There are also about a dozen stones that have been gathered and stacked in a pile. | |||||||||||||
| Condition: Poor | |||||||||||||
| Cemetery is in deep woods. There are about a dozen stones, which have been gathered up and stacked together. It will not be possible to determine where the stones actually go. There are several other legible stones standing nearby, as well as several older field stones that were used as markers. There are a few dead trees that could be cut and removed from area. | |||||||||||||
| * = computed birth | |||||||||||||
| Birth | Death | Age | |||||||||||
| Surname | First Name | Other inscriptions | M | D | Y | M | D | Y | Y | M | D | ||
| MOLER | Sarah | w/o John | Feb | 17 | 1809 | Apr | 7 | 1856 | 47 | 1 | 22 | ||
| SMITH | Mary E. | d/o J. & E. W. | Aug | 16 | 1838 | Apr | 14 | 1847 | 8 | 7 | 29 | ||
| HYTEN | Elizabeth | w/o Wm H. - stone broken | 1857 | ||||||||||
| LEGANS | George | May | 6 | 1788 | Aug | 28 | 1844 | 56 | 3 | 22 | |||
| SMITH | Eliza W. | w/o Joseph | Nov | 17 | 1811 | Oct | 17 | 1846 | 34 | 11 | 0 | ||
| HYTEN | Susan Isabell | d/o W. H. & E. | June | 8 | 1849 | June | 24 | 1849 | 0 | 0 | 16 | ||
| MOLER | Sarah Ann | d/o John & Sarah | Apr | 23 | 1852 | Jan | 4 | 1854 | 1 | 8 | 15 | ||
| Footstone F. M. C. | |||||||||||||
| There are at least 14 other illegible stones or footstones | |||||||||||||
| The following information was obtained from a previous reading of the cemetery, but we could not find these stones: | |||||||||||||
| CARTMILL | Harrison | s/o John & Nancy, half brother of Zebulon Collings | * | Sept | 25 | 1836 | July | 12 | 1855 | 18 | 9 | 18 | |
| COLLINGS | Zebulon | s/o Abraham & Nancy | * | May | 28 | 1820 | July | 7 | 1833 | 13 | 1 | 9 | |
| CRAWFORD | George L. | s/o R. & N. M. | * | Oct | 15 | 1851 | Sept | 28 | 1852 | 0 | 11 | 13 | |
| MOLER | John | * | Sept | 31 | 1805 | Nov | 10 | 1866 | 61 | 1 | 10 | ||
| RAGLIN | Sarah | d/o J. & S. | * | May | 11 | 1856 | Jan | 7 | 1863 | 6 | 7 | 27 | |
| WHIPPLE | David | of Greenwich NY | * | about | 1775 | July | 9 | 1833 | 58 | ||||